The awards will be presented at AssetRush Zurich 2026, the Swiss financial center's festival of innovation, taking place on May 21 at the Kaufleuten.

From our extensive coverage, we have selected the projects and products that generated the greatest interest among our readers.

In three categories — Digital Assets, Traditional Assets, and Alternatives — five candidates compete in each. You decide who wins. Voting closes on Wednesday, May 13, at midnight.

Category I: Digital Assets

Amina Bank — Franz Bergmueller, CEO

Amina Bank, Crypto Finance, and Incore Bank have jointly demonstrated that regulated Swiss financial institutions can process instant account-to-account transfers with transaction netting over a shared digital infrastructure — without creating new currencies and operating fully within existing Finma regulations. The second-phase pilot on the Google Cloud Universal Ledger has advanced from proof-of-concept to production validation, showing how settlement efficiency can increase exponentially as more institutions join the network. The initiative lays the foundation for cross-currency settlement and the transfer of digital assets in interbank operations. → finews article (in German)

Frankencoin — Luzius Meisser, Board Member

The Frankencoin Association maintains the decentralized protocol behind the largest Swiss franc stablecoin, the Frankencoin. It operates a frontend and supports further development. Around 30 million Frankencoins are currently in circulation. Startup Plusplus has already launched a certificate on the Frankencoin accessible through traditional channels. → finews article (in German)

Pictet Asset Management — Olivier Monti, Senior Quantitative Analyst and Investment Manager

Pictet Asset Management and SIX SDX tokenized EUR- and CHF-denominated corporate bonds for the first time and sold fractional quantities to clients on blockchain infrastructure — the first live production of its kind on regulated financial market infrastructure. The innovation carries the potential for investors to express individual preferences directly at the security level, such as excluding or overweighting specific holdings within funds. → finews article

Swiss Stablecoin — Pascale Bruderer, Executive Chairwoman

An open CHF stablecoin sandbox with UBS, PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zuercher Kantonalbank, and BCV as founding partners — a testing environment for programmable Swiss franc payments on a blockchain basis, open to additional participants. → finews article

Twint — Thomas Graf, Chief Product Officer and Member of Executive Management

Twint is opening a dialogue to make its infrastructure accessible to regulated stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and applications in the field of digital identity. The goal is to enable innovative digital financial and identity solutions on the established Twint platform, strengthening Switzerland's digital sovereignty. → finews article (in German)

Read on the next page who the nominees in the «Traditional Assets» category are, then cast your vote for the winners.